Personal Experience: My LG LCD 42″ HDTV Purchase

This is a bit of a departure for this blog: My own personal experience with a 42″ LG LCD HDTV we bought about 6 months ago. One word review: Excellent. Read on for something a little more detailed.

I had already always wanted to own a LCD flat-panel HD TV. In their very early days, they were just too darn expensive, so I was left to drool from a distance at various electronics stores. $3000 for a TV? Not in my budget. Run up a huge credit card tab at 22% interest at a big-box store to get one? I’ll pass, thanks.

So there it was on QVC. You’ve heard of them, the shop at home thing where you can follow the yellow brick road of bankruptcy one Flexpay at a time if you aren’t careful? But this was pretty good, 6 payments of $208/mo, and it would be ours. Not super cheap, but easier than laying out $1200 all at once. It had a decent size, full HD 1080p, and 3 HDMI connections. We’d be good to go.

We ordered, and it arrived about 2 weeks later. We unpacked and connected it (easy enough), and prepared to oogle. The standard def picture was actually very decent (unlike many of these early models of LCD’s, where the standard definition pic was crap), and the HD is sharp and breathtaking (we’re using Component cables for connecting to the HD cable box, so that holds it back a bit i’m sure). Upconverted DVD’s were fairly amazing too. Not a hiccup or problem in 6 months.

I’d recommend it heartily to anyone looking for a solid, reliable LCD TV with a great picture.